On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:03:17PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I just bought an 80GB, USB, SATA, portable, external, hard disk, and I have > some doubts:
Based on your questions, I suspect you are trying to do more than just use a hard-disk attached via usb. What is your goal here? We might be able to help better if we knopw what the ultimate goal is. > > 0. Is there a Howto addressing Linux on external hard disks? > try google. > 1. How to shut down? Simply unplugging the USB cable, after unmounting, is > wrong, is it not? shut down what? the disk? the system? if you have mounted an USB disk, then yes, umount it and when that's done you may unplug it. > > 2. When I lock the screen, I want to remove the hard disk. Is this possible? um. sure? umount it and unplug it, then lock the screen? maybe you could use an automount configuration so that you know it will be umounted within X amount of time so that you could unplug it. > > 3. I have heard about hibernation. After hibernation: (A) Can I remove the > hard disk? (B) Can I un-hibernate on another computer? see? this is why I think you are asking for something that you aren't quite getting to. You want to run your system on this disk, not just use it? I don't think you can do this hibernate/un-hibernate thing unless you are dealing with identical hardware. > > 4. I want to get the drive details: manufacturer, model, etc. I there a > program which takes the device file as input, and outputs the device > characteristics? smartctl and i think hdparm can give you all sorts of info on your drive. I don't know how well they work over USB. > > 5. About encrypted partitions, and LVM: Are they readable, and writable from > Microsoft Windows? I'd say no. > > 6. How to copy a NTFS partition to the hard disk? I checked Parted, and > NTFS-3G but they doesn't appear to support this. use windows.or use dd for identically sized partitions. writing ntfs partitions is still fairly new and I'd not trust it with really critical data. > > 7. About partitioning: Does Microsoft Windows require the first primary > partition, to be bootable? nope. you can fool it in both grub and lilo by remapping the partitions. okay, maybe that only works with different disks, not different partitions on one disk, but its worth a shot. > > 8. Any other information: Pitfalls, advice, comments, etc.? yes. tell us what you're trying to do so we can help you figure out how to do it. You are asking how to do all this little things without telling us what you really want. I suspect you should have asked something like "Hi List, I am trying to set up a dual boot system on an external hard-drive. I would like to run windows xp and debian...." A
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